An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...

Last week, the Japanese meteorological satellite Himawari-8 snapped a pretty cool image of Australia from space. The image shows an enormous gravity wave sweeping through the atmosphere off the ...

WaveManager lets Maya animators create procedural wave motion via expressions: no keyframes needed, full control from one driver.

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Melissa Guidry heard The Rumor in September and mentioned it to Eve Chase. The Rumor had it that the LIGO Science Collaborative had recorded signals believed to be gravitational waves and were ...

These Questions originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answers by Peter Graham, Stanford Physics Professor ...

Earlier measurements of duckling metabolism showed that the youngsters saved energy when swimming behind a leader, but the physics behind that savings wasn’t known. Using computer simulations of ...